100 Half Marathons - Club Challenge of Fifty States Half Marathon Club - California Running Clubs

California half marathon runners and walkers!  Join a great club with lots of challenges to work on, as well as lots of discounts and great members.  Many half marathon runners and walkers out there can’t alway afford to travel around to all 50 states.  The 100 Half Marathons Challenge™ is a perfect alternative!  Join Fifty States Half Marathon Club and work toward your 100 half marathons, and take your time on the other challenges.  All members can work toward all the challenges.

Fifty States Half Marathon Club hosts a big annual meet up in a new state every year, which includes the big annual awards night for all the club members that finish a challenge.  From the 100 Half Marathons Challenge™ to the 50 States Half Marathon Challenge™, or 50 States Endurance Challenge™, runners and walkers will enjoy a great group of members, with lots of opportunity to meet members at races.  Paint your journey on the cool 100 Half Marathons shirts, designed by Fifty States Half Marathon Club, or the map back design as you work toward 50 states.

Additionally, there is the 500 Endurance Challenge™, the 7 Continents Endurance Challenge™, and the new Canada 10 Provinces Half Marathon Challenge™.  A description of each challenge can be found at the official website of Fifty States Half Marathon Club.

Beautiful, classy awards when you finish a challenge!

Join the club and start working toward your 100 half marathons, or 50 states, at www.50stateshalfmarathonclub.com

Race Review for Half Marathons in California

Do you have a race review for a half marathon you participated in located in California?  If so, feel free to submit a half marathon review for consideration!   Here are some great topics runners like to read about in your half marathon review:

Was the race well organized?  Packet pick up, expo, start time, timing, support?

Did this race have an expo, or just a small packet pickup?

Were enough volunteers recruited? How was on course support?  Enough food?  Enough water?

How was the post race party?  Good food? Music?  Enough food?  Enough refreshments & recovery food or drinks? Describe.

How was the medal? below average? average? excellent?  beyond excellent, pretty cool?
Do you have a photo to share of your bling to include?

How was the swag?  Any awesome swag?  Brand of shirt?

How was the cost of the race compared to most half marathons?  about average, a great deal, way too expensive for the swag, bling and support that was provided, well worth the cost for the swag, bling, post race party and support received?


Was this a small race, a medium sized race, or large race?

Was the course scenic?  What was the highlight of the course (or highlights of the course)?
What made the course fun (or totally boring)?
Do you have any good scenic course photos to send us?

Describe the course.  Was it flat?  Rollers the whole way?  Flat with one big monster hill?  All up?  All down?  All up then all down? etc.  Was it shaded?  Trees, dessert, mountainous, city streets, all neighborhoods, through a park, etc?

We love to hear from our half marathon runners about all the half marathon races out there that you love, like, or didn't care for, and appreciate your feedback.  We may share your review in multiple locations such as our half marathon blogs, or possibly even on Halfmarathonsearch.com.  You can ask to be published anonymously if you'd like, but we do need your information in order to publish.

Happy Running!

California Half Marathons 2014 - California Half Marathon Calendar

Just a note to our readers, letting everyone know California half marathons are up to date for 2014 at the Halfmarathonsearch.com Half Marathon Calendar!

Search for half marathons by state OR search for a half marathon by month.

CALIFORNIA HALF MARATHON CALENDAR 2014

The half marathon calendar is managed by Fifty States Half Marathon Club and is a free resource to the public.

There is Still Time to Register for Shoreline Half Marathon, 5k, 10k July 14, 2013

Only a week away, BUT there is STILL TIME to register for the Shoreline Half Marathon, 5k, 10k event!  The start and finish of this race is held at the Ventura Promenade Park and is a two loop course running along the Ventura ocean front boardwalk and Visa Del Mar Ridge with spectacular views.

This is a walker friendly course, medals for all finishers, race day athlete t-shirt for all participants. and a custom goody bag with race day logo.

www.shorelinehalf.com/Home_Page.html

ALSO, Fifty 50 States HALF Marathon Club members receive a discount to this event.

Click here for a listing of ALL California Half Marathons

Happy National Running Day to all you California Runners

Wishing all you California runners out there an extra special National Running day! Runners united like never before this year, and we are so grateful to be a part of such an awesome community full of all you awesome runners.

All the best, From your Running Friends at Fifty 50 States HALF Marathon Club and Halfmarathonsearch.com Half Marathon Calendar USA!

http://www.halfmarathonclub.com

California Half Marathon Runners, Marathoners & Triathletes - Take the Challenge

Join in California runners & triathletes, and take the Challenge!  Whether you are a half marathon runner, a full marathon runner, a half ironman triathlete or go long for the full ironman triathlons, OR like to do a little bit of all, ... we have a challenge for you!  Choose from 3 challenges .........

www.halfmarathonclub.com

Half Marathons Reach a Milestone & Surpass 2000 total mark in 2012

The year 2012 has been a year of tremendous growth for half marathons and marks a new milestone of surpassing over 2000 half marathons across the United States.  Half Marathons are being formed as fast as we can add them to the online calendar directories.  Halfmarathonsearch.com analyzed, searched, and compared the top half marathon directory listings across the United States and came to a total of 2005 half marathons for all US States totaled, reported on August 26, 2012.  California leads the way with the top number of half marathons, surpassing the 250 mark this year and new half marathons being added almost weekly, with Florida following as second with a total of 105 half marathons reached in 2012.  Not too far behind Florida follows Utah, Texas, and the state of Washington for most half marathons in the United States.  Both Florida and Texas hit their 100 milestone this year in 2012.

As events grow, the importance for Race Directors and Event Management companies to understand their audience, not only from a race day perspective, but also an online perspective in presenting the event website is critical.  A past article Event Websites in our Changing World of Technology, Social Media, and Accommodating the Traveling Athlete written by Nicole Blomgren, Founder and President of Fifty States HALF Marathon Club and Halfmarathonsearch.com, provides good insight into what events should be cognizant of in presenting their information for runners, to make finding an event so much easier.

The rate of half marathon additions does not seem to be slowing as we approach this last quarter of 2012, predicting half marathon totals to likely grow to between 2300 to 2500 by the end of 2013.  Half Marathon clubs and training organizations have also seen growth in 2012, such as the national running club Fifty States HALF Marathon Club www.halfmarathonclub.com , which has more than doubled over the past year, and the training organization  PRSFIT Nation www.prsfit.com which also continues to grow, training runners and triathletes, of all levels, globally.

Furthermore, the half marathon 13.1 mile distance event is a nice event to travel on the weekends to. Runners can typically experience a quick recovery after finishing a half marathon, one may not encounter when participating in a full marathon, presenting the half marathon experience to be very enjoyable running distance event for runners.

 ~ Copyright 2012 - Nicole Blomgren

California Half Marathon 2012 Totals - The most of ANY US State

The 2012 California Half Marathon Totals are in!

California was one of our toughest states to total, and to be quite honest there could be more.  BUT we have the most half marathons of any event calendar out there, so we should be pretty close in accuracy for the 2012 California Half Marathon Totals.

248 Half Marathons!

To view a complete list of 2012 California Half Marathons, visit:

California Half Marathon Calendar

California Runners - Kick off your Half Marathon Spring Season 2012

California Half Marathon Runners!  Looking for a March Half Marathon to kick off your early spring season in March?!  If you are in southern California, don't spend almost $100 for a half marathon for only a tech shirt and a medal!  There are too many awesome half marathons going on all across California to have to spend that much for your spring event.  San Diego Half Marathon runners, take a short drive up the coast from San Diego and join runners in some of Charlie Alewine's great extremely reasonably priced half marathon races for 2012 http://www.charliealewineracing.com/!  And in addition to already reasonably priced events, if you are a member of Fifty States HALF Marathon Club, receive a discount to their events off their already great priced races.  A great way to kick off your spring season in March and not burn a hole in your pocket!

Take a peek at all their great events (if the new March dates aren't posted yet, they'll be up real soon!):

CHARLIE ALEWINE RACING

There are also some great priced half marathons in northern California, Wine Country and San Fran / San Jose area in March I noticed.  For a list of all half marathons across California, for all months, take a look at Halfmarathonsearch.com

LA County Half Marathon

Half Marathon Race coming up in California in LA County at the Fairplex on the LA County Fairgrounds December 13th 2009     http://www.runlacounty.com/

HALF Marathon Runners and Race Directors in CALIFORNIA

Feel free to post favorite races, half marathon events, and anything and everything related to HALF Marathons in California!

For Race directory of California HALF Marathons, go to
http://www.halfmarathonclub.com/Upcoming_Races.html

If interested in taking on a 50 STATE CHALLENGE or a 100 HALF ANYWHERE CHALLENGE, please check out Fifty States HALF Marathon Club at www.HalfMarathonClub.com